Flash CS3 Tutorial: Loops

For Loop
The for loop is made up of three elements that have the capability to provide for a counter variable, a condition and an operation all in one line. The three elements are separated by a semicolon and contained within a set of parentheses, see example. The first element is the variable in the example the variable is i. The second element is the condition, in this example the for loop is checking to see if i is less then 10. The third and final element is the operation or counter. In the example i is increased by one every time the loop is started.

for (var i:int = 0; i< 10; i ++){
//do this
}

Flash CS3 Tutorial, , For Loop
The for loop is made up of three elements that have the capability to provide for a counter variable, a condition and an operation all in one line. The three elements are separated by a semicolon and contained within a set of parentheses, see example. The first element is the variable in the example the variable is i. The second element is the condition, in this example the for loop is checking to see if i is less then 10. The third and final element is the operation or counter. In the example i is increased by one every time the loop is started.

for (var i:int = 0; i< 10; i ++){
//do this
}

Download Flash CS3 Tutorial, Source Files In this Flash CS3 Tutorial you will find that a few simple objects have been created for you. In the Library you will see three items: container, faster_btn and slower_btn. The faster_btn and slower_btn are simply buttons that you are going to add event listeners to. The object that is slightly different is the container movie clip. This movie clip is empty at the moment but you are going to use ActionScript to put something inside of it. In this Flash CS3 Tutorial the container has already been named container1 in the linkage properties dialog box, but make sure that you remember this step.